MA and PhD fellowships for African students

I’ve come across several great scholarship opportunities for African students who’d like to study or attend workshops abroad recently, and wanted to highlight them here. They’re listed by country or region, and by university.

I include the link to the version of the scholarship offered when I found it, so some of the links may now be out of date. I don’t have time to update all the links every year, so if you find an outdated link, just search for the current information on the scholarship.

I’ll note here that I get a lot of requests from people asking me to help them get a scholarship. I’m not affiliated with any of the universities or scholarship providers listed here. I can’t provide individualized recommendations for scholarships. I can review a limited number of social science scholarship applications as my schedule permits.

The ACLS African Humanities Program offers research funding to African PhD students at universities in Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, or Uganda

The Institute of Infectious Diseases of Poverty offers PhD scholarships to students studying infectious disease at the University of Ghana, University of Ibadan, University of Sciences, Techniques and Technologies of Bamako and Modibbo Adama University of Technology

The Bank of Tanzania offers BA and MA scholarships at a range of Tanzanian universities

The Partnership for African Social and Governance Research offers scholarships for students doing the MA in research and public policy at Maseno University, Egerton University, Uganda Christian University, Uganda Martyrs University, University of Dar es Salaam, and Mzumbe University

The African Economic Research Consortium offers MA and PhD scholarships

The Open Society Foundation supports PhD students and professors from Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Sudan and South Sudan through the Civil Society Scholar Awards

Thanks for sharing this info, Rachel. I’m hoping to get my South African mentee to the US for some additional learning opportunities — once he completes his tertiary diploma internship. #FirstThingsFirst
Best for the New Year!

this is very interesting initiative. i have been searching for masters and doctoral scholarships opportunities but haven’t been successful. the orientations here seems much better and offer chances to apply to many scholarship offers. jp